[LINK] Microsoft's Flash

[George Bray]

On 8/3/07, stephen at melbpc.org.au <stephen at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

> Again, why should we care? If you're a cynic, Silverlight just looks like
> Microsoft's answer to Flash.

Actually, it's Microsoft's answer to Adobe's AIR, a conflagration of
Flash, Flex and their own scripting environment and browser plugin.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/

The sad thing is that both of them will try to be "the platform", but
neither will be ubiquitous, and both will be buggy resource hogs,
badly implemented in all browsers for many years to come. Let's not
discuss the new wave of security vulnerabilities they will bring.

Ivan's right, there will be tears.  As history has told us, those
trying to implement these fantastically complex environments first
will be the first to cry.

George
Web 0.5 Evangelist